Enhancing CSS Instruction with Objective Typography

Abstract

Classroom instruction in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be made more rigorous and systematic when anchored by established, rule-governed typesetting principles from the International Typographic Style. This poster, which is prepared as an interactive website in the spirit of this year's online conference, outlines an instructional approach to CSS that requires students to apply a core set of typographic principles to a manageable, human-scaled subset of CSS properties. In this approach, students formally express a set of abstract but reasoned design principles as a collection of CSS style declarations.